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PPOPP
1997
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Shared Memory Performance Profiling
This paper describes a new approach to finding performance bottlenecks in shared-memory parallel programs and its embodiment in the Paradyn Parallel Performance Tools running with...
Zhichen Xu, James R. Larus, Barton P. Miller
PPOPP
1997
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Effective Fine-Grain Synchronization for Automatically Parallelized Programs Using Optimistic Synchronization Primitives
As shared-memory multiprocessors become the dominant commodity source of computation, parallelizing compilers must support mainstream computations that manipulate irregular, point...
Martin C. Rinard
PPOPP
1997
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Performance Implications of Communication Mechanisms in All-Software Global Address Space Systems
Global addressing of shared data simplifies parallel programming and complements message passing models commonly found in distributed memory machines. A number of programming sys...
Beng-Hong Lim, Chi-Chao Chang, Grzegorz Czajkowski...
PPOPP
1997
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Compiling Dynamic Mappings with Array Copies
Array remappings are useful to many applications on distributed memory parallel machines. They are available in High Performance Fortran, a Fortran-based data-parallel language. T...
Fabien Coelho
PPOPP
1997
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
LoPC: Modeling Contention in Parallel Algorithms
Parallel algorithm designers need computational models that take first order system costs into account, but are also simple enough to use in practice. This paper introduces the L...
Matthew Frank, Anant Agarwal, Mary K. Vernon
PPOPP
1997
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
The Interaction of Parallel Programming Constructs and Coherence Protocols
Some of the most common parallel programming idioms include locks, barriers, and reduction operations. The interaction of these programming idioms with the multiprocessor's c...
Ricardo Bianchini, Enrique V. Carrera, Leonidas I....